Holder for connecting devices



u 1953 l. s. GORDON 2,647,424

HOLDER FOR CONNECTING DEVICES Filed May 20, 1952 IN VEN TOR.

Patented Aug. 4, 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HOLDER FOR CONNECTING DEVICES Isidor S. Gordon, Springfield; Mass.

Application May 20, 1952, Serial No. 288,976

2 Claims.

This invention relates to holder for wire connectors.

The principal object of the invention is the provision of a device for holding a connector for wires while the binding screw is tightened for clamping wires in the connector.

A. common form of wire connector includes an externally threaded metallic tubular sleeve for receiving wires to be connected having a binding screw for engaging the wires and a cap for screwing onto the sleeve.

The sleeve is difficult to grasp between the fingers as the binding screw is being tightened onto the wires and the holder herein provided is adapted. to be held in the hand and a sleeve inserted therein for tightening the binding screw.

All of the above objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangements of parts thereof, as will fully appear by a perusal of the description below and by various specific features which will be hereinafter set forth.

To the above cited and other ends and with the foregoing and various other novel features and advantages and other objects of my invention as will become more readily apparent as the description proceeds, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more particularly pointed out in the claims hereunto annexed and more fully described and referred to in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a connector holder embodying the novel features of the invention;

Figs. 2 and 3 are end elevational views of the holder shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a side elevational view of a wire connector; and

Fig. 5 is an elevational view of the holder shown in Fig. 1 having a connector therein.

Referring now to the drawings more in detail, the invention will be fully described.

The holder 2 of the invention is in the form of an elongated body preferably formed from substantially rigid insulating material.

Axial sockets 4 and 6 are provided in opposite ends of the body which are of different diameters for threaded portions of connecting sleeves of different diameters. Said sockets terminate in annular shoulders 8 and I and inwardly thereof there are bores and I for receiving the main bodies of connectors.

Axial grooves I2 and M are provided in a side of the sockets 4 and 6 and bores 5 and I to provide clearance for binding screws projecting from connectors as they are inserted in the sockets.

Openings I6 and I8 extend transversely through the wall of the body at the sockets and are in communication with the grooves I2 and M to expose a binding screw of a connector when inserted in a socket.

A connector is shown in Fig. 4 and includes a sleeve 20 and a cap 22.

The sleeve 20 is of metal and has a wire receiving bore 24 and a threaded portion 26. A screw 28 in threaded engagement with the sleeve is adapted to bind and hold a wire or wires in the bore thereof.

The cap 22 is formed from insulating material and has a socket 30 for receiving the connector 20. A threaded portion 32 is adapted to threadedl engage the threaded portion 26 of the sleeve. With wires clamped in the sleeve, the cap is screwed onto the sleeve to enclose it and provide insulation therefor.

As shown in Fig. 5, a sleeve such as 20 with wires 40 and 42 in the bore thereof is inserted in the socket 4 of the holder. The clearance groove I 2 provides clearance for the screw 28 of the sleeve as the sleeve is inserted in the socket 4.

The threaded portion 26 of the sleeve abuts the shoulder 8 of the socket 4 thereby to limit inward movement of sleeve and the screw 28 is positioned in alignment with the opening l6.

As shown in Fig. 5, the sleeve 20 is so disposed in the socket 4 of the holder that the binding screw of the sleeve is located in the opening I6 of the holder. A sleeve of different dimensions than of the sleeve 2!] may be inserted in socket 6 of the holder and the binding screw thereof located in the opening I8. The binding screw being thus presented in an opening in the side of the holder may be turned by the tip of a screwdriver.

The holder may be grasped in the hand and the screw 28 tightened for binding the wires.

The sleeve, of course, may be inserted in the socket with the screw projecting somewhat therefrom and the wire or wires inserted in the bore of the sleeve.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the essential characteristics thereof. Hence, the present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects merely as being illustrative and not as being restrictive, the scope of the invention be ing indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all modifications and variations as fall within the meaning and purview and range of equivalency of the appended claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein.

What it is desired to claim and secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A holder for an elongated connector having :a bore for Wires and provided with an enlarged threaded end and a transverse binding screw intermediate opposite ends thereof comprising in combination, an elongated body formed from insulating material having a socket extending inwardly from an end thereof for the threaded end of a connector and a bore extending inwardly from said socket providing a shoulder for abutment by the threaded end v of a connector, said socket and bore provided with axial grooves in a side thereof for slidably receiving the binding screw of a connector as it is inserted in said socket and bore, and said body provided with an opening extending transversely through a side thereof into said bore for exposing the binding screw of a connector in said socket and bore.

2. A device for holding an elongated tubular metalwire connectingsleeve having a body Of a certain diameter and an enlarged externally threaded end and provided with a transversely disposed wire binding screw in the body thereof comprising in combination, an elongated manually engageable body formed from insulating material having a socket extending inwardly from an end thereof and a bore extending inwardly and axially of said socket, said socket and bore being of such relative diameters as to slidably receive the body and threaded end of thesleeve and arranged to provide an annular shoulder therebetween for abutment of the enlarged end of the sleeve against said shoulder, said body provided with a longitudinal groove in the sides of the socket and bore for passage of the binding screw of the sleeve therealong and having an opening through a side thereof into said groove and bore disposed to expose the binding screw of the sleeve when the enlarged end thereof is in abutment with the shoulder of the body.

ISIDOR S. GORDON.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,356,889 Skrzycki Oct. 26, 1920 1,658,658 Schaffer Feb. '7, 1928 1,852,159 Hanks Apr. 5, 1932 

